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70, organized October 24, 1881, and entitled with the position "liberal studies.V.G." Four years later he would become this city"s mayor. He died on September 15, 1915. His obituary appeared September 16, 1915 in the Eugene Daily Guard:
ALBERT Walker, FIRST MAYOR OF SPRINGFIELD, DIES
Albert Shield Walker, first mayor of Springfield upon its incorporation in 1885, and prominent in the civic and social life of Springfield, died at his home here yesterday morning after an illness of a year.
He was 69 years of age and had lived in Lane Company
62 years. There are also eight children, Herbert East., West. F., Ralph, Joy, Mistress O. C. Woolf, of Albany, Mistress
H. F. Parsons, Jessie and Grace, of Springfield. Interment will be made in Laurel Grove cemetery.
Mr. Walker was born in southwestern Missouri January 1, 1846, and when he was six years of age his people started for Oregon by the overland trail.
Returning immigrants, with tales of cholera on the way, deterred the party, they returned to their home for the winter, but in April, 1853, they again started for Oregon, and arrived in Lane county in October of the same year.
